The Dutch Trade and Industry Appeals Tribunal (CBb) ruled that, regarding the system operators’ duty to connect immovable properties to electricity networks, the property-tax assessment is no longer decisive, but rather the criteria set out in the Dutch Valuation of Immovable Property Act.

Mobile telecom operators must ensure that Dutch emergency number 112 can be reached using all technologies that they use for establishing regular phone calls. This is one of the conclusions in the draft policy rule that ACM has made available to market participants for consultation.

Today, CBb, which is the highest administrative-law court in the Netherlands, handed down its ruling in the appeal proceedings in the case about Dutch postal operator PostNL charging rival postal operators tariffs for delivery of business bulk mail.

Over the last few weeks, ACM has reviewed approximately 180 voucher schemes in five different sectors. ACM found that not every reviewed voucher scheme complied with the basic principles that had been drawn up by ACM.

ACM has welcomed the new provisions in the Dutch Telecommunications Act, granting ACM more powers to protect competition in the fixed-telecommunications market. The Dutch House of Representatives today passed an amendment, which will expand ACM’s toolkit.

Hospitals, hospital pharmacies, and pharmaceutical wholesalers are allowed to collaborate closely with each other during the current coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in order to prevent or reduce any shortages of essential drugs.

The transmission tariffs of the Dutch transmission system operator for natural gas, Gasunie Transport Services (GTS), will increase, on average, by 3.7 percent in 2021. Consumers will hardly be affected by the tariff increase.